Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2021-07-23, 17:44

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The binary's again now hosted on GitHub, https://github.com/leikareipa/vcs/releases, since the server isn't coming back any time soon. Keep in mind it's an evaluation version. If you continue using it, you're required to leave ten bucks on a bench next time you go out. If that's illegal in your area …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2021-07-19, 05:25

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Any chance you could share your built version? I tried building this now for a couple of hours but no luck. I have no experience with this tool chain. At least for me the information on github and comments here are not enough to get me going. For building OpenCV, see if the answer over at https:// …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2021-04-12, 08:45

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Sounds good, and good that the docs were enough to get you going. It's just the nature of free open source that you need to do some legwork. I spent maybe 100 hours over just two weeks preparing the latest couple versions, so imagine having to do even more work. Any version of VCS from maybe two …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2021-04-09, 07:52

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I've done it a bunch already, just on vacation from it now I guess. But it's open source with build instructions, there shouldn't be any secret sauce to it.

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2021-04-02, 07:29

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Version 2.4.0 is out, download it while it's up for the next few days. Same deal as last year - money's tight and I want to save on hosting, so the downloads will take a summer break. Not planning on putting them on GitHub now but maybe later - already done 40+ releases of this thing, that's enough …

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Re: Professional capture cards video lag?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 04:40

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mothergoose729 wrote on 2021-03-26, 03:56: I don't know anything about the visionRGB. Can you link me to something I can read up on? It's a range of enterprise capture cards for video walls, medical imaging, whatever that gets cheap ebay dumps from presumably big prior users.

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Re: Professional capture cards video lag?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 00:37

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Wouldn't it be easier to just split the VGA signal with a cable? If you are after a way to play games on LCD monitors than a dedicated scaler is going to work a lot better. Capture cards aren't designed for playing games. You can run into lots of different kinds of issues. You'll run into issues …

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Re: Professional capture cards video lag?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 23:24

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-03-25, 18:44: Very nice to know, Are you able to display the video capture in full screen mode or similar? It's professional hardware with a C programming API, you can process the captured frames any way you want.

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Re: Professional capture cards video lag?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 08:03

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I tested with a VisionRGB-PRO using a PS2 keyboard via a switch box, recording a smartphone 960 FPS video of both the keyboard's caps lock light and an OS indicator displayed on a 60 Hz non-gaming monitor. Took about 30-40 ms from the caps lock light to a VisionRGB-captured image of Win 98's WordPad …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2021-03-24, 01:10

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brassicGamer wrote on 2021-03-23, 11:59: I see there is a new release on GitHub. No binary though? Just checking I'm not missing something, thanks. Over at www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com. If you don't see the newest version there then a browser cache refresh should do it.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-17, 19:16

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Getting retro capture onto YouTube without a huge loss in quality is a pain. I got a pretty good result here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZP6HiyJKHg. Captured with the old VisionRGB-PRO from a Millennium/Voodoo combo. The video was nearest upscaled from 640 x 480 and padded to 1080p, looks near …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-17, 00:29

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Trying to do a vidcap but getting the following: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/EN0XYN.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/d1rQTG.jpg It's an issue with VCS being 32-bit and the memory space being shared with the x264 encoder, not enough memory to go around, depending on …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-16, 17:49

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I also installed the latest version of VCS - version 2.3.0 and it picked up the card without issue. For some reason though I'm dropping frames, so I'll need to look into that. Also, I assume there is no way to capture audio using that util? Dropping frames all the time or just sometimes? Since VCS …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-13, 07:41

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VCS is getting a cool bunch of updates for the next version, so look out for that.

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Re: Colin McRae Rally (1998)

Posted on 2021-03-04, 08:31

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Samples of how the TNT2 and GeForce4 render the HUD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNFDYFBNd-4. Ditto for the S3 Virge and Matrox Mystique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bx_WvxgtL8. Always something glitched. The only thing I see the G400 failing with is that it's missing the background …

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Re: Colin McRae Rally (1998)

Posted on 2021-03-04, 05:17

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The screenshot you've got there does show the kinds of graphical issues I mean, like uneven line thickness and/or black pixels around solid bars. Period video cards virtually always have variations of these glitches in this game from what I've seen, save for the software renderer and the G400. I …

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Re: Colin McRae Rally (1998)

Posted on 2021-03-04, 01:51

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How's the in-race HUD rendering? The tachometer in the bottom right looks to have a bit of crud, as with about all period cards I've tried. Only seen it render correctly on the Matrox G400: https://youtu.be/QxkBWIlDIyE?t=296.

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Re: RallySportED, the track editor for the DOS game Rally-Sport

Posted on 2021-02-05, 08:26

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The latest version adds live previewing/playing tracks in a browser DOSBox (js-dos), also works with direct links via the #play URL tag, e.g. https://tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/rallysported/?track=demod#play. Pretty sick. This version deprecates the DOS-based modding tools so now there's just the …

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2021-02-01, 08:19

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PCbi 0.17.1 fixes a crash when double-clicking the environment backdrop while PCem is running, fixes a wrong internal id code for the AMD K6-2 300, adds the ability to enable Voodoo 1/2 SLI mode by installing two cards, and removes the confirmation notice when sharing folders.

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Re: PCbi - a retro PC simulator and a 3D front end for PCem

Posted on 2021-01-31, 04:07

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PCbi 0.17.0 for PCem 17 is out (for Linux). Binaries can be found on the website (see first post). Fixed shared folders ISO not updating in PCem, tweaked UI stuff here and there, and added a bunch of components (some Voodoos and some sound cards, maybe something else too). Didn't add the new Slot …

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